ANAO website
The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO), as part of its overall mission, is committed to promoting a best practice approach to organisation-wide risk management in government.
As part of its role to assist the Auditor-General to provide an independent review of the performance and financial management of public sector agencies and bodies, the ANAO produces an integrated range of best practice guides. These guides deal extensively with the topic of risk management in a number of public sector contexts, and are indispensable reading for individuals involved in the application of best practice risk management in the public sector or otherwise.
Comcover website
Comcover is the Commonwealth Government's Insurable Risk Managed Fund. As well as taking a role in risk management of the Commonwealth agencies insurable risks, it has taken a proactive stance to ensure better risk management in all areas of uninsurable risk across the 180 agencies that it manages.
Comcover has published a range of risk management guides and kits for the Commonwealth. This body of work is leading edge and reflects best practice. Each State government has an equivalent to Comcover. All of these government insurable funds actively cooperate and meet bi-annually.
Standards Australia website
Standards Australia has developed a number of world-first guides to help you implement the procedures and processes that you need to implement and maintain an effective risk management strategy in your organisation.
AS/NZS 4360:1999 risk management is the world's first and leading risk management standard. It provides a generic framework to establish a risk management process in an organisation. The standard outlines procedures that you can implement to help establish the context and then identify, assess, analyse, treat, monitor and communicate with regard to risk.
Based on AS/NZS 4360:1999, Standards Australia has also developed a number of guides to help you apply risk management in your specific organisational setting. These are available from their website.
IFAC website
The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) has extensively researched the area of risk management from an international accounting perspective.
